aclocal, etc. dependency order?

[Paul Martinolich <martinol@ametro.net>]

In what order should I run aclocal; automake; autoconf?

I develop mostly on an SGI system and have automake 1.4 and
autoconf 2.13.  Using NIS/NFS, I can log onto others systems
to compile the code under a new OS using the same source.
Occasionally, I see something like:

cd ../../src/aps && aclocal
cd ../../src/aps && automake --foreign Makefile

when I compile on a different OS.  On several of the other
systems automake and autoconf are not installed.  But on the
linux box, it tries to run automake and fails:

Makefile.am:1: require version 1.4, only have 1.3

I'd like to run automake/autoconf on the SGI development
machine the "proper" order so that ./configure will NEVER
attempt to call aclocal and automake on the other platforms.

Thanks,

Paul